cunningly

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Passing sentence Judge Geoffery Baker QC described Saeed as a "charlatan", who had carried out a deception that had been "cunningly contrived, skilfully executed, and brazenly maintained over three decades".

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2025

There’s much to appreciate about a show that cunningly strives not only to be deemed good but to make us redefine what that means.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2024

This disputatious sociopolitical drama is cunningly packaged as a romantic comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024

This system cunningly increases the proportion of offspring with Wolbachia and the virus in the next generation, because females with the bacteria successfully reproduce more frequently than females without.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024

You can see the shafts of the huge chimneys and how cunningly the side flues were contrived to enter them, and the little private closets now public, and the enormous kitchen.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White